Sarah Irvin Statement: Sarah Irvin creates artwork at the intersection of the social construct of motherhood and her own lived experience within the daily practice of mothering. She is interested in public perceptions and definitions of caretaking and how these definitions influence the caregiver as well as those they care for. Through the Child Citizen project, Irvin tracks her daughter’s development as a global growth chart. She marks her daughter’s height in public spaces using paint that matches the color of her daughter’s bedroom. The project changes as she grows, as the family moves to a new home or repaints…
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Aleppo in the Heart of the Living Room Every soul needs a proper chaperone to say nothing of a champion. Especially after sloshing around this broken world. My heart lacks a tenant, though each chamber stands wallpapered and ready for occupancy. I’ve posted want ads in all the neighborhood papers: Open Room, Low Rent, Minimal Maintenance Required. I wait. Squint in the glint of pregnant light that streams like a laser through my blinds, reflecting off my daughter’s name in dainty gold plaque hanging around my neck. I think of Aleppo’s children, who live and die where light is blue…
Origami I’ve read about women who say they can’t write New mothers, their arms a cramped night, crescent They hold what they cannot yet tell. My baby was milky paper to me then, a smooth sheet, the inverse. But I can no longer hold her. Or write her. Your body, my almost grown girl, is yours alone. But know I want to fold your good bones into my lap. I know how inelegant it would look, a well-intended poem of poor proportion. I can’t pin tuck time through air, can’t write you to stay on the page. You are my…
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 22nd edition of this scholarly discourse intersects with the artistic to explore the wonder and the challenges of motherhood. Using words and art to connect new pathways between the academic, the para-academic, the digital, and the real, as well as the everyday: wherever you live, work, and play, the Art of Motherhood is made manifest. #JoinMAMA To read more follow the link below March, 2017 Martha Joy Rose Art and Words by Martha Joy Rose
Mom Egg Review Vol. 15 Our fifteenth annual issue includes work about pregnancy, birth, parenting, nurturing elders. MER is about mothers’ work, as mothers and in the world, as artists, and as citizens of our planet. Explore the many voices of motherhood in MER 15! MOM EGG REVIEW VOL. 15 – 2017 Editor-in-Chief Marjorie Tesser Poetry Editor Jennifer Jean Readers for Vol. 15 Jessie Bacho Patrice Boyer Claeys Elizabeth Lara Jennifer Martelli Ana C.H. Silva Becky Tipper Cindy Veach Nancy Vona Paulette Warren Contributors Carol Alexander Nina R. Alonso Keisha-Gaye Anderson Betsy Andrews Elizabeth Aquino Susan Ayres Patricia Behrens Susan…
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Review by Hannah Cohen A beautiful book centered upon the knowns and the unknowns of being human, Margaret McCarthy’s collection Notebooks from Mystery School reveals the mundane and sublime in our lives—from domestic arguments to art and even mythological figures. The nomination for the New Women’s New Voices Award is clearly deserved for McCarthy’s intricate and affecting words. A talented artist on the page, stage and the wall, McCarthy includes intriguing black and white photographs, heightened forms of language for the theatre, and of course, her poetry in this work. She’s been in an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center…
Barbara Crooker has a new book out, Les Fauves, “a collection of ekphrastic poetry, meditations on paintings from the Fauve and Post-Impressionist movements. But it also contains poetry’s equivalent to Fauvism, poems that take a walk on the wild side…” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936196697/?tag=barbaracrooke-20 Hester Jones has new video piece called “Father Food” that will be exhibited at the new Animal Museum in LA, USA next week until April.The exhibition, SPOM, is a show of 14 international female artists who made work inspired by Carol J Adam’s The Sexual Politics of Meat and celebrates the 25th anniversary of this legendary book. “Father Food” is a video that shows…
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 21st edition of this scholarly discourse intersects with the artistic to explore the wonder and the challenges of motherhood. Using words and art to connect new pathways between the academic, the para-academic, the digital, and the real, as well as the everyday: wherever you live, work, and play, the Art of Motherhood is made manifest. #JoinMAMA This segment features art of Scotland by Aga Gasiniak and Laura Sloan Patterson’s prose piece, The Giraffe. February, 2017 Aga Gasiniak and Laura Sloan Patterson https://mommuseum.org/2017/02/05/in-her-own-words-painting-scotland/ Laura Sloan Patterson THE GIRAFFE There is a cry across the hall. Not…
Review by Barbara Harroun Joelle Biele’s Broom, recipient of the 2013 Bordighera Poetry Prize, studies life with such microscopic precision and attention that the daily cracks open as wondrous, perplexing, and miraculous. The poems, printed in English and translated into Italian on the mirrored page, gave me new eyes, new occasions to see, and lenses with which to reflect on the life I bring with me to the page. Devoid of sentimentality, these poems inquire into the webbed experiences of navigation—navigating motherhood and writing and traveling and illness and remission and the natural world. Biele’s rich imagery, diction devoid of…